On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 3 Oct 2011, at 18:35, Frederick Grose wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote:
>> >...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of
>> >the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you?
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>>
>> One reason to think about phases of the moon on our normal life is the fact
>> that people on the north hemisphere see the moon "upsidedown". Or the
>> opposite: people on the southern hemisphere see the moon "upsidedown".
>>
>> We can use that knowledge on our normal life: On the calendar we can see the
>> icons of phases of the mooon, but those icons were designed by northern
>> people, with the crescent moon like a "D" and the Waning Moon like a "C",
>> but in the southern hemisphere is the opposite, crescent moon is a "C" and
>> waning moon is a "D". (the people that designs calendar on the south repeat
>> like parrots the things that northern people designs, so they draw the moon
>> in the opposite way....)
>>
>> In northern hemisphere the mooon is liar, because she is a "C" when she is
>> "de-crescent", and she is a "D" when she is Crescent, but here on the south
>> the moon tell us the truth.
>>
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>> For example: a child in Uruguay could take a picture of the moon and send to
>> a child in Canada, the same day, so they can compare that fact. and maybe
>> another child on the equator can send another picture that shows the moon
>> on the middle, like an "U".
>>
>> This suggests that in Gary Martin's Moon activity,
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Moon
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4034
>>
>> the hemisphere toggle control should instead control rotation of the view
>> between the north and south extremes.
>>
>> That might help you if you wake up in a strange land and need clues to your
>> location.
>
> Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately it requires 1) correct local time, 2)
> reasonably accurate longitude and latitude position, and some rather complex
> maths for calculating/using the positions of the Sun, Moon, Earth and your
> position on it – I have some of this math/code but it is not so accurate,
> current data in Moon is generated from 1min accurate public data tables
> provided by NASA (including Luna eclipses and Solar eclipses).
>
> Any one know of some python based Open Source compatible source that is
> available? When I've previously dug about for an existing solution, I've
> usually ended up discovering things based on property blobs we could not
> legally ship/publish.
Well, one simple assumption could be based on the language code: e.g.,
if someone is using es_UY, you could assume they are in the southern
hemisphere by default and start with the appropriate hemisphere state?
-walter
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
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